Matthew Simpson Quotes
If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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Being evil is easy.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
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The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.
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The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea.
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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The idea of losing your best friend, basically, is the worst thing in world.
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If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.
